About the Role
Provide executive-level support to the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and serve as a trusted partner, ensuring seamless day-to-day operations, anticipating needs, and managing competing priorities. This role also offers administrative support to the Marketing leadership team and may serve as backup to other Executive Assistants.
Responsibilities
- Manage complex, multi-time zone calendars for the CMO, balancing competing priorities while optimizing executive time.
- Coordinate meetings, executive reviews, leadership offsites, and customer engagements.
- Manage agendas, meeting logistics, and follow-up actions for staff meetings, leadership meetings, and key business reviews.
- Capture meeting notes, track action items, monitor progress, and help ensure commitments are completed.
- Develop sufficient understanding of the business and organizational priorities to proactively identify issues, surface dependencies, and help drive execution.
- Exercise sound judgment when interacting with internal and external stakeholders, representing the CMO with professionalism and discretion.
- Support members of the Marketing leadership team with complex scheduling, travel coordination, and administrative needs as appropriate.
- Assist with department budget tracking, purchase requests, invoice processing, and other administrative financial activities.
- Process executive expense reports accurately and in a timely manner.
- Coordinate planning and logistics for team meetings, offsites, customer visits, executive events, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Ensure all required materials, information, and logistics are prepared for key meetings and executive engagements.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for day-to-day administrative needs across the Marketing organization.
- Prepare, edit, and format high-quality presentations, reports, executive communications, and other business documents.
- Translate executive guidance into polished PowerPoint presentations and supporting materials with exceptional attention to detail.
- Maintain organized documentation and ensure information is communicated clearly and professionally.
- Coordinate complex domestic and international travel, including flights, accommodations, ground transportation, and detailed itineraries.
- Provide on-site executive support during major company events, customer meetings, trade shows, and industry conferences, including occasional travel as required.
- Partner with other Executive Assistants to coordinate Executive Team activities and support company-wide events.
- Handle highly confidential information with the utmost discretion and professionalism.
- Build strong working relationships across the executive team, Board interactions, customers, and external partners.
- Serve as a senior member of the Executive Assistant community by mentoring others, sharing best practices, and providing backup support across the C-Suite when needed.
Requirements
- 15+ years of executive assistant, administrative, or related professional experience supporting C-level executives.
- Demonstrated success partnering closely with senior executives in demanding, fast-paced environments requiring exceptional professionalism and sound judgment.
- Experience managing highly complex calendars, travel, executive meetings, and competing priorities with minimal direction.
- Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through.
- Experience preparing executive-level presentations and business documents using PowerPoint and other presentation tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a polished executive presence.
- Proven ability to manage confidential information with the highest level of discretion.
- Experience coordinating leadership meetings, managing agendas, documenting action items, and tracking follow-up activities.
- Ability to build trusted relationships and effectively manage stakeholders across all levels of the organization, including executives, customers, and Board members.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft Teams, calendaring systems, and video conferencing platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies, including a genuine interest in leveraging AI-powered productivity tools to improve efficiency.
- Adaptability to thrive in a high-growth, rapidly changing, and often ambiguous environment.
- Willingness to travel occasionally in support of executive meetings, company events, and industry conferences.
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Google Workspace
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Calendaring systems
- Video conferencing platforms
- AI-powered productivity tools
Location
- San Mateo
Work Type
- On-site
- Occasional travel
Experience Level
- 15+ years of executive assistant, administrative, or related professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000 - $170,000 a year
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
About the Company
- Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.
- Its products include Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft.
- With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.
Equal Opportunity
- Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
